Page 9. Panel 1. The robots
look familiar, but the only one I can positively identify is Robbie the Robot,
from Forbidden Planet.

"I can see straight down to the planck level" may be a reference to the
effect of the spice melange in Frank Herbert's Dune.

"The multiverse is open source" is a reference to the Open Source movement.

Page 10. Panel 2. The
robot in the lower right may be Ed Valigursky's "Cosmic Computer."
Alternatively, it might be the robot which often appeared on the cover of
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in the 1960s and 1970s.

Panel 6. The face on all of the robots is that of Palmer Eldritch,
from Philip K. Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

Page 12. Panel 1. Driving
the bus is Gilbert Shelton's Wonder Warthog. The sign
on the front of the bus, "Warthog's Academy," is a pun on "Hogwart's Academy"
from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels.

"Kids, don't forget you've got hussade practice after school" is a reference
to the game hussade from Jack Vance's Alastor.

Behind him is "Neptune Perkins," a reference to the DC hero and member of
Young All-Stars; "Brother Eye's Cameras and Film," a reference to "Brother
Eye," originally from OMAC and now a villain in the DC Universe proper;
and STAR Labs, a scientific outfit in the DC Universe.

Panel 3. The receptionist is Celia from Monsters, Inc.

Panel 4. "Mayor Dolan" is Ellen Dolan, from Will Eisner's "The Spirit."